Bill Kristol Announces Campaign for Barack Obama’s Third Term [VIDEO]

When Bill Kristol announces a “third” candidate he is declaring he wants to hurt Donald Trump’s chances of beating Hillary Clinton.

When Bill Kristol announces via Twitter that there will be an alternative candidate to rival Donald Trump, what are his motives?

If Bill Kristol is being truthful, then there can be only one result: Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders) is more likely to win the presidency in 2016. It will be Barack Obama’s “third term.” Kristol must be aware of that fact. So we have to wonder what his motives are.

The idea that he is doing this merely because he wants to vote for someone else is ludicrous. He could easily write in the name of someone else if that was all that was motivating him. Also, running a candidate costs a lot of money. People don’t make that kind of investment without hoping for a tangible benefit. So what is Kristol hoping for?

Another possibility is that Kristol fears that a Donald Trump presidency might be popular. If Trump was to pull off a more prosperous, more secure nation, that would mean voters would want to continue that kind of policy in the executive office. How would the Republican Establishment exert control over the Party if voters catch of vision of success with Trump as president? Better to never let that happen.

The upshot of both these possibilities is that Kristol is afraid that Donald Trump has a real chance of winning.

Joe Scudder is the "nom de plume" (or "nom de guerre") of a fifty-ish-year-old writer and stroke survivor. He lives in St Louis with his wife and still-at-home children. He has been a freelance writer and occasional political activist since the early nineties. He describes his politics as Tolkienesque.